I’ve written about Addynamo before, as an Adsense alternative, but I’ve never really talked about one of the questions I always ask myself when testing out a new network : who’s using it? It’s one of the simpler ways of determining the legitimacy and worth of a new ad network and something I’m always on the lookout for. So today, when I logged into Statcounter, I noticed something very familiar. [...]
A while back when I started using Nrelate and Outbrain, for related content, I was very interested in giving the Related Content Ads a test drive, to see how they convert in comparison to eg. Adsense, which over the years have become less and less successful on most of my blogs. Now unfortunately Outbrain had a minimum hits requirement, which I didn’t have and still don’t have. Nrelate on the [...]
As your blog or network of blogs grow you will ultimately move into other areas of “monetization”, apart from the traditional contextual banner and text ads from services such as Adsense and Addynamo. Most people will agree that using your blog to promote affiliate products can be a great second source of income and will work well next to the aforementioned traditional options. I do not recommend this as a [...]
As a blogger I tend to go through phases, where I test different contextual ad networks to see how they perform. Also being a South African and having blogs specifically aimed at the South African community the “traditional” Adsense option might not always be the best. I recently noticed on one of my blogs that on “exit link activity” it regularly showed Adsense clicks, but no earnings from Adsense. So [...]
Many months ago did a short review of a new WordPress classifieds theme which I bought a copy of. I gave it a test run for a few weeks and eventually found it to be lacking in to many departments for me to use on a production site. I wrote it off as a loss and went with the Another WordPress Classifieds plugin, which offered more in terms of look [...]
I’ve always been interested in ways to monetize your blog, but I don’t always spend the time on implementing or fully testing them. Hits have been increasing on all my blogs recently, specifically my new BuddyPress install at www.rugbyshout.com and this increased my “awareness” of monetizing my blogs. Anyway, enough with the musings. I’ve heard some good and bad things about CMF, but the system is pretty easy to understand [...]
Adsense users will be happy to know that the Google team is currently testing a new interface to make ad publishing that much easier, and that much prettier. It’s a sad fact that the biggest contextual ad provider online still utilizes, one of the ugliest user interfaces in the world. Think ad formats, think reports, even though it works and we’re all used to it by now, it’s about time [...]
I say “New” Adsense Alternatives because these are money-generating opportunities that are new to me, but whom I’ve heard great things about. I recently signed up and will be giving them a test drive over the next couple of weeks. You can try them out yourself or come back in a short while to see how I’m doing. 1. Etology Etology is still one of the newer players on the [...]
